Providing Pathways Industries Offices Guidelines On Protecting Company Assets From Vulnerabilities From Physical Attack

Companies can prevent falling victim to unauthorized physical access by developing and implementing simple policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines for employees as well as guests to follow. Secure all areas containing sensitive systems and/or data. Require staff to follow entrance procedures when entering a secured area. Also ensure that physical data such as important documents are secured. Require

Policies are usually made up of high level statements. These statements are usually made by senior management and enforced downwards to lower level staff. Policies are used to ensure the protection of all sensitive information throughout the organization by outlining a definite scope of what to needs to be protected, defining roles and the responsibilities and finally gives an in-depth description of the controls that needs to be implemented. Policies, when viewed from a legal perspective is the effort taken by senior management to ensure the safety of the organization’s

Secure the workplace. Where appropriate to the business, install video surveillance, extra lighting, and alarm systems and minimize access by outsiders through identification badges, electronic keys, and guards.

Most security and protection systems emphasize certain hazards more than others. In a retail store, for example, the principal security concerns are shoplifting and employee dishonesty pilferage, embezzlement, and fraud. A typical set of

This policy seeks to provide Pathways Corporation offices guidelines in protecting company assets from vulnerabilities from physical attack. This includes not only computers and other types of information technology resources, but access to physical areas as well. Additionally, this policy will address potential damage to assets from natural occurrences like fire, loss of power, flood and other naturally occurring disasters.

Security services are an integral part of any network design. Assessing the vulnerability of network infrastructure to disruptive events is recognized as an important component of network planning and analysis. This section provides an overview of common network infrastructure vulnerabilities, essential network security concepts analysis and present. It illustrates the possible placement of servers including access paths to the Internet, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and firewalls. This paper also describes a comprehensive security policy for a company including ethical aspects related to employee behavior, contractors, password usage, and access to networked resources and information.

In this report I will be talking about different security policies and guideline and how they are needed in an organisation. The first one I will be talking about will be the disaster recovery policy, what this policy is basically about is that the organization will have so kind of plan or strategy put in place for things like natural disasters for example floods, fire, earthquake and things like theft and major human error that can cause major data loss, which and ultimately impact the organization security and the functions the organization provides. What this disaster recovery policy might have in it is if a natural disaster or a virus enters the organization one police can be to basically move all the data to an off-site location

The critical factor of network development is security planning. Without doing a full hazard appraisal, it is unrealistic to get ready for security. This security arranging includes creating security policies and executing controls to keep PC dangers from getting to be reality.

This paper examines Physical Security from the perspective of perimeter such as gates/guards, building access controls, room access controls, enforcement options, auditing approaches, risk determination for physical attack vectors, etc. Physical Security describes measures that prevent and/or deter attackers from accessing a facility, resource, or information stored on physical media. It can be as simple as a locked door or as elaborate as multiple

Physical and Infrastructure Security is essential to protecting organizational interests from both well-known and undocumented threats. Acts of nature can be a detriment to daily operations as well as the actions of humans. Mitigation of such threats should be taken into consideration and recovery planning and preparation is key. A well-developed policy that is executed and enforced within the organization can assist in this objective.

A 2001 Government Accounting Office defined risk management as “a systematic, analytical process to consider the likelihood that a threat will harm an asset or individuals and to identify actions to reduce the risk and mitigate the consequences on an attack (Decker, 2001)”. But what assets need protection and which people need the most protection? That’s where the DHS has been working to develop products like the National infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) to develop partnerships and strengthen critical assets. Through FEMA a similar synchronization offshoot has been developed entitled the National Protection Framework (NPF) where again

Reviewed the perimeter protection safeguards in place for IT assets like workstation, switches, servers etc. (Obj. A)

In the United States everyone is concerned about safety in their homes and in his or her workplace. Individuals go to great lengths to ensure that all their possessions that they own could not be stolen from them. According to the 1999 FBI Uniform Crime Reports, nationwide 408,217 robberies were committed with the estimated amount of losses being reported at $508 million in losses. Many measures can be put in place to prevent such losses. This paper will discuss physical security and other components such as building security, grounds security, access control systems, perimeter security, information systems, and technology security.

Physical security must also consider how to address visitor access, and issues where badge access cards may have become lost or stolen. Physical security should include the use of security guards, monitoring equipment, and screening procedures for those who need access to secured areas (Allsopp, 2009). Each component of the policy has key members that must be included in the development of the policy.

There are many considerations when selecting a location to conduct business and this decision should include more factors than cost alone. The selection process should also include a risk analysis that examines the additional risks associated with the physical security as well as risk brought about by natural or man-made disasters. By employing such consideration not only protects an organization’s assets, but also provides a roadmap to develop methods and procedures for the successful deployment of physical access controls as well as the development Disaster Recover plans (DRPs) and business continuity plans (MMB, 2012). This may be a daunting task to complete as there are a large number of variables that can disrupt